If this is war, the U.S. is doing a lot of business with the enemy. As threats of sanctions and reprisals still echo across the Pacific, Washington is striving to keep the battle over China's theft of intellectual property from further denting the two nations' trade relationship, now worth about $47 billion. One clear signal is Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's plan to fly to Beijing next week with a delegation of American businessmen who expect to sign deals worth as much as $8 billion. Another is the U.S.'s decision to go ahead with the sale of a million tons of...
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